ART. 72.] CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ETC.

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12. If any person shall unlawfully shoot at any person, or shall
in any manner unlawfully and maliciously attempt to discharge any
kind of loaded arms at any person, or shall unlawfully and ma-
liciously stab, cut, or wound any person, or shall assault and beat
any person, with intent to maim, disfigure, or disable such person,
or with intent to prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of any
party for any offence for which the said party may be legalty ap-
prehended or detained, every such offender, and e\ery person coun-
selling, aiding, or abetting such offender, shall, upon conviction

Id s 122
1851, c 99, s 1.
Shooting etc.
27 Md. 483.

thereof, be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for a period
not less than eighteen months and not more than ten years.

RAPc.

Punishment.

13. Every person convicted of the crime of rape, or as being
accessory thereto before the fact, shall, at the discretion of the
court, suffer death, or undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for

Art 30, a 161
1809, c 138, s. 4
Rape, or acces-
sory thereto.

not less than eighteen months nor more than twenty-one years, and
penetration shall be evidence of rape, without proof of emission.

Punishment.

14. If any person shall carnally know and abuse any woman
child under the age of ten years, every such carnal knowledge shall
be deemed felony, and the offender being convicted thereof, shall,
at the discretion of the court, suffer death, or undergo a confine-

Id s 162
1809, c 138, s 4
Carnally know-
ing woman
child under the
age of ten years

ment in the penitentiary for not less than eighteen months nor more
than twenty-one years.

ROBBERY.

Punishment.

15, Every person convicted of the crime of robbery, or as acces-
sory thereto before the fact, shall restore the thing robbed, or taken,
to the owner, or shall pay to him the full value thereof, and be sen-

Art 30, s 172.
1809, c 138, s 6.
Bobbery, or ac-
cessory thereto.

tenced to the penitentiary for not less than three nor more than ten
years

ABORTION.

Punishment.

16. Any person who shall knowingly advertise, print, publish,
distribute, or circulate, or knowingly cause to be advertised, printed,
published, distributed, or circulated, any pamphlet, printed paper,
book, newspaper notice, advertisement, or reference containing woi ds
or language, giving or conveying any notice, hint, or reference to
any person, or to the name of any person, real or fictitious, from
whom , or to any place, house, shop, or office, where any poison,
drug, mixture, preparation, medicine, or noxious thing, or any in-
stiument or means whatever, for the purpose of producing abortion ;
or who shall knowingly sell, or cause to be sold, any such poison,
drug, mixture, preparation, medicine, or noxious thing, or instru-
ment of any kind whatever; or where any advice, direction, infor-
mation, or knowledge may be obtained for the purpose of causing
the miscarriage or abortion of any woman pregnant with child, at

1868, c 179, s 2.
Advertising,
soiling, using,
etc , means to
cause miscar-
riage or abor-
tion
40 Md 633.